My son heard me tell him to come downstairs, but I wasn't home!

Thank you for the excellent description of your experiences. For some time now, I would think I heard someone's voice in my family and they would either not be home or would be in a different room. It has happened slightly more frequently lately, but I have always brushed it off to my imagination. My pre-teen son has also come downstairs several times over the past years asking why I called him when I hadn't spoken at all. However, this past weekend I talked my husband into taking three of our kids to the movies, so I was home with my oldest daughter and my special needs, non-verbal son. She and I were sitting in our living room watching TV and I heard my youngest son's voice say "Mommy" My daughter looked at me wide eyed and ran upstairs (my husband had told her to get her room clean before they got home) . . . but before she got to the top she turned around and sat back down on the couch. We both kind of looked at each other for a few minutes - both of us afraid to admit we had heard the same exact thing, yet my husband and kids were not home yet. I guess perhaps I cannot brush it off anymore. Nothing seems particularly threatening, though my kids tend to get spooked over any little thing easily. We've also recently adopted an abandoned kitten, and I will be interested to see if she has any reactions. Thank you again, so much. And if it matters to anyone, I live in a city, with houses within 20 feet on the left and right and a house behind within 200 feet, and houses across the street. I do live on the slope of one of the last large hills before the Ohio flat(ter) land.

Are you sure? If this is true then it is really scary as we have experienced the same thing here also.

That is so creepy! I would never go back into my room again if that happened. Have you considered getting rid of your door? I lived in a house once where the door to the basement would slam at night for no reason. There was no air suction or anything to cause it to slam. I also had a friend who had a house I didn't like because one time during a sleep over in the middle of the night there was a woman's scream coming from her laundry room. Talk about creepy!

Wow. Very interesting. Your family may just be incredibly intuitive. I've had experiences like this before, but no nearly as often as your family has. I lived in a house where paranormal activity happened often, and I would hear people calling my name from time to time when they really weren't.
I used to see things happen a few seconds before they would happen. I would see things in slow motion, and then immediately after the same thing would happen. I imagine that hearing others come home before they actually return is similar in nature.
It could also be residual energy...Some times humans can leave energy behind that constantly repeats it's self. But this is only a theory and I'm not sure if I believe it.

This kind of thing happens to me and my family quite a lot, both in our previous house and in this one. So much so that we've just begun to brush it off as one of those weird things that happens sometimes and no one really pays any attention to it. Both myself and my oldest son (he's 10) are VERY sensitive to paranormal activity and have seen and sensed ghosts quite often but my husband often hears people he knows calling his name in the house as well.

What really just freaked me out though was that as I was reading this post my oldest came downstairs to ask me why I'd just shouted him!!!! I said I hadn't but he was determined that he's heard me shout his name so I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence or not!

I've had this happen before and, more so at night time I've gotten use to it and, have developed my intuition of telling if it was the real voice or not and, have gotten use to it